Received
anonymously by both the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation
Front press offices:

Begin communique

At 2:00 AM on
November 26, 2002, anonymous cells of the A.L.F. and the E.L.F.
visited the Mindek Brothers Fur Farm (4200 Shannon Road) in Harborcreek,
Pennsylvania. Before disappearing into the night, a large fire was
set which completely destroyed the farms feed barn and it's contents,
causing extensive financial loss.

The A.L.F. is
also claiming responsibility for releasing 200 breeding
mink in May and 50+ in September from the same farm.

Working together,
cells from A.L.F. & E.L.F. demolished this feed
facility due to it's role in the systematic torture and killing
of thousands of innocent creatures yearly - animals which possess
the same complex emotional/physiological traits as loved household
pets, yet are denied all reasonable consideration and confined to
a miserable "existence" in tiny wire cages hardly large
enough to turn around in.

Imprisoned in
fur factories, these solitary creatures are forced to
endure intensive confinement for the entirety of their lives, next
to,
or not uncommonly, packed into the same excrement and disease laden
cages as their doomed relatives. In their natural state, these animals
maintain a vast territory encompassing several miles. However, on
fur farms such as this one, most of these semi-aquatic animals "enjoy"
less than 24 inches of space, living on chicken wire, exposed to
incredible levels of disease, cannibalism, and weather extremes.
With what is essentially still a wild animal, these squalid conditions
produce a perpetual state of chronic distress, unimaginable to human
beings. This stress leads to severe psychosomatic illness, causing
disturbing behaviors like self-mutilation, cannibalism, and incessant
pacing and scratching in attempts to escape from their prison.

After experiencing
the blistering heat, filth, intensive confinement,
and other amenities of the mink shed for half of a year, they are
either gassed, electrocuted, or have their necks snapped. If they
are genetically superior, they often stay on the ranch indefinitely
in such conditions, only to be killed in the same manner when they
lose their usefulness.

These cells
have witnessed all of these things and more just as
disturbing, first hand at this farm, and feel that they must pose
this
question to the public.

Would this deplorable
situation be allowed to continue if the animals happened to be cats,
or puppies perhaps, rather than their canine relative the North
American Mink? Clearly, it would not. Brutality is brutality - these
animals are no less deserving of basic "rights" than the
animals we call our friends, and the law protects as such. Thus
it is, in the face of this glaring hypocrisy, with their very real
suffering in mind, that we take the justice and mercy that the law
fails to provide into our own hands, and provide it for those who
cannot act in their own defense.

The economic
value of a dead body or a frivolous luxury item can not be compared
to the inherent value of a life - thus unnecessary killing is absolutely
unjust. This has been recognized by much of the rest of the world,
and in multiple cases, fur farming has been completely banned by
other "first-world" governments. It is time for the worlds
most accomplished and proven terrorist, the United States, to respond
and follow suit. If it does not, this inexorable struggle on behalf
of innocent life will continue.

*****

The E.L.F. took
part in this action on behalf of the Earth, due to the
targets extreme pollution of surrounding streams and groundwater
with excrement and offal runoff. The fur trade's co-dependant relationship
with the ecological nightmare of factory farming and other such
nefarious forms of animal agriculture alone, completely necessitate
our action in defense of life on Earth. If the owners of the destroyed
facility wish to be left alone, they should permanently close their
operation, providing clear proof that they have done so. If this
is done immediately, and this communique is released to the public
UNALTERED, individual members from each of the cells responsible
for this action will turn themselves in. If this is not done, the
rest of the mink ranch WILL be demolished. Other components of the
mink ranch operation may also be targeted.

In defense of
life,
A.L.F. / E.L.F.

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In June of 2002, another anonymous cell visited the Lawrence Dana
Fox Ranch in Erie, PA (9129 Station Road). Breeding information
was removed and the entire breeding stock was released. None of
the foxes were recovered.
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Additionally, the A.L.F. is claiming responsibility for releasing
dozens of breeding stock mink and destroying breeding information
at the Main Mink Ranch (RR 2/Route 60) in Gerry, NY. in September.
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On behalf of another anonymous cell of the Earth Liberation Front,
we are also claiming responsibility for the destruction of two GMO
corn test/demonstration crops in northwestern Pennsylvania. Both
crops (BT and Roundup-Ready) were destroyed beyond usefulness, and
kept from producing seed for future planting. The proliferation
of Genetically Modified Organisms, and the increased deployment
of toxic pesticides in our bioregion presents an unrivaled threat
to the biological integrity and diversity of our ecosystem, and
has begun to be met with appropriate resistance. ANY GMO/GE crops
planted in this area from this day forth may be targeted by eco-activists.